CATAPHRACT

Mechlab (WiP)

Class: Heavy

Weight: 70 tons

The Capellan Confederation found itself desperately short of heavy and assault BattleMechs during the final years of the Third Succession War. The Cataphract was born directly from that need. Pride quickly turned to embarrassment as the sole Cataphract production facility was lost to Davion forces only a few years after it became operational in 3025, and shortly thereafter the Cataphract could be found among the ranks of enemy garrison units. At first glance the Cataphract seems to be an attempt to make a heavy BattleMech as versatile as possible, given its mix of weaponry and an abundance of armor.

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Variant: CTF-1X

Speed: 64 kp/h

Standard engine 280

Free tonnage (no armor): 41 tons

Engine hs: 1

Weapons:
RT: autocannon10, mediumlaser
LT: mediumlaser
RA: mediumlaser, ppc
LA: mediumlaser

Trait slots: 6

Variant: CTF-2X

Speed: 64 kp/h

Standard engine 280

Free tonnage (no armor): 41 tons

Engine hs: 1

Weapons:
RT: autocannon10, mediumlaser
LT: mediumlaser
RA: largelaser
LA: srm4

Trait slots: 6

Variant: CTF-4X

Speed: 48 kp/h

Standard engine 210

Free tonnage (no armor): 50 tons

Weapons:
Head: lrm5
RA: autocannon5
LA: autocannon5

Trait slots: 7

Variant: CTF-IM

Hero!

Speed: 64 kp/h

XL engine 280

Weight Saving: XL engine

Free tonnage (no armor): 49 tons

Engine hs: 1

Weapons:
RT: autocannon10, mediumlaser
LT: mediumlaser
RA: smalllaser, autocannon5
LA: autocannon5

Trait slots: 8

Grigori Kovalenko was a loyal Capellan who viewed the Federated Suns initial incursions into Capellan territory as a cowardly sneak attack. Unwilling to participate on any attacks against the Capellans, he abandoned the Twelfth Star Guards and offered his services as a mercenary to the Capellan Confederation. With the fall of Tikonov in 3029 Grigori took the theft of the Cataphract design and production as his new cause. Styling himself as a knight of old, and a quest to take back all Cataphracts from non-Capellans, he quickly salvaging one for his own use. Replacing his aging Centurion and dubbing it Ilya Muromets, after the legendary knight of Slavic myth.

Variant: CTF-0XP

HOTIS

Speed: 64 kp/h

Standard engine 280

Free tonnage (no armor): 41 tons

ECM slot

Beagle probe slot

Engine hs: 1

Weapons:
RT: autocannon5
RA: ppc, mediumlaser
LA: mediumlaser

Trait slots: 7

Variant: CTF-0X

HOTIS

Speed: 64 kp/h

Standard engine 280

Free tonnage (no armor): 41 tons

ECM slot

Beagle probe slot

Engine hs: 1

Weapons:
RT: autocannon5
RA: ppc, mediumlaser
LA: mediumlaser

Trait slots: 7

Variant: CTF-2P

ARMS

Speed: 64 kp/h

Standard engine 280

Free tonnage (no armor): 41 tons

Engine hs: 1

Weapons:
RT: autocannon10, mediumlaser
LT: mediumlaser
RA: largelaser, mediumlaser

Trait slots: 7